Uaiuara

Uaiuara is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by C. Rheims in 2013.[2]

Uaiuara
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Uaiuara
Rheims, 2013[1]
Type species
U. amazonica
(Simon, 1880)
Species

7, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains seven species, found in South America and Panama:[1]

  • Uaiuara amazonica (Simon, 1880) (type) – Northern South America
  • Uaiuara barroana (Chamberlin, 1925) – Panama
  • Uaiuara dianae Rheims, 2013 – Peru
  • Uaiuara jirau Rheims, 2013 – Brazil
  • Uaiuara ope Rheims, 2013 – Peru, Brazil
  • Uaiuara palenque Rheims, 2013 – Ecuador
  • Uaiuara quyguaba Rheims, 2013 – Brazil

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Uaiuara Rheims, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Rheims, C. (2013). "A new genus of huntsman spiders (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae) from the Neotropical region". Zootaxa. 3734: 199–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.6. PMID 25277907.


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